Our Own Pamphlets

• On the Web formatted as Web pages
  • A Consumers Guide to Bicycle Helmets

  • A Bicycle Helmet for My Child

  • How to Fit a Bicycle Helmet

  • Teaching Your Child to Ride a Bicycle

  • Skateboard Helmets

  • Getting Kids to Wear Helmets

  • The TransMadison pamphlet Children and Traffic.
  
  
  
• As a file for local printing in .pdf format (readable with Adobe Acrobat Reader plugged in to most Web browsers. These files are very large and can take more than a couple of minutes to download if your connection is slow. When they are finished downloading you can print them out.
  • Buying a Helmet (info sheet format)

  • A Consumers Guide to Bicycle Helmets

  • A Bicycle Helmet for My Child The comic strip is included in this pamphlet.

  • How to Fit a Bicycle Helmet

  • Teaching Your Child to Ride a Bicycle

  • Skateboard Helmets

  • Getting Kids to Wear Helmets

  • The TransMadison pamphlet Children and Traffic.

  • Bike Safety by 8 year old Candice Discepolo. Only available in .pdf format, not in Word. A huge file if your connection is slow (446K file).

• As a file for local printing in Word format (readable by most word processors). These files are large. They are quick on a broadband connection, but if you are calling on a slow modem line they will take a couple of minutes to download. Some computers are not set up to download a Word file, and you will get just an error message. If that happens, use the .pdf files above.

  To save a Word file to your local hard drive:

  • right click on the title below

  • select Save Target As

  • the Save dialog comes up, and you save the file to your word processing area

  • Open the file with Word or your word processor.

  If you just left click on the title the way you normally do for Web files, some browsers will try to display the file, usually doing a lousy job of it. Some will just stall out.

  Here are the files:

  • Buying a Helmet (info sheet format)

  • A Consumers Guide to Bicycle Helmets

  • A Bicycle Helmet for My Child

  • How to Fit a Bicycle Helmet

  • Teaching Your Child to Ride a Bicycle

  • Skateboard Helmets

  • Getting Kids to Wear Helmets

  • The TransMadison pamphlet Children and Traffic.

• On actual paper by postal mail

  We can mail high resolution duplicating masters (produced at 1200 x 1200 dpi) to you on paper, but we need your postal mailing address. Send us your postal mailing address by email to info@helmets.org

  or write to us at:

  Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute
  4611 Seventh Street South
  Arlington, VA 22204-1419
  USA

  and send your postal mailing address. We will mail the four pamphlets on heavy white paper, unfolded. There is no charge for the pamphlet masters. We also include samples of the DOT pamphlets described below.

Non-profits are free to add their logo or a sentence telling the reader that this pamphlet was provided through you. But if you want to make changes in the text please just do that and take all of our info off, making you responsible for the content.

Commercial users should contact us to ask about adding anything. You are not permitted to charge for our pamphlets. Local bicycle shops are almost non-profits anyway, so we encourge you to duplicate any of our materials to hand them out in your shop.

Your copy of Word will treat the files a little differently from ours because it is almost certain that some of our default settings differ. The formatting of these pamphlets is necessarily tight. If you are using the Word version please be prepared to deal with little adjustments if you find that the page breaks are not right, for example, and you get three pages instead of just two (the front and back). You may need to fiddle with margins, page setup, or paragraph spacing, even though we have used standard fonts and spacing. Make sure you have selected the option View - Print Layout. We also recommend using File - Print Preview to avoid doing excessive printouts while you are fiddling. We do not recommend making any of the text smaller to fit things in. It is small enough already to discourage readers!

Occasionally we get a message from someone whose browser will not download the file for them. If that happens to you, send us an email to info@helmets.org and we can send you the files attached to a return email. We can even send them to you by postal mail on a disk. If you need a disk, you may want to just request our Toolkit for Helmet Promotion Programs, including two disks, our pamphlets, samples of the DOT pamphlets and some of the pages listed on our Toolkit Page. Our Toolkit disks have four pamphlets on them in Word format, but not .pdf files, so you miss the one created by an eight year old. We do not charge for the disks or the Toolkit.

US DOT Pamphlets on Paper

Here is one sheet that NHTSA no longer distributes, but we think it's a winner. It's called "Prevent Bicycle Crashes" and covers both sides of a standard flat sheet of paper. You can download it to print out in either word format if your system allows downloading word files, or in PDF format if those work better for you.

US Consumer Product Safety Commission Pamphlets

• Which Helmet for Which Activity. If you are viewing this page on our CD, we have included this pamphlet as a .pdf file.
• Bicycle Fact Sheet
• Use Your Head
• Bicyclists Should Wear Helmets: Back to School
• Night Bike Riders at Risk
• Bicycle Safety is No Accident
• Bicycle Safety: Message to Parents, Teachers and Motorists
• Sprocket Man Comic Book
• Ten Smart Routes to Bicycle Safety
• Kids Speak Out on Bike Helmets
• What's New About Bicycle Helmets?

State of California Pamphlets

City of Madison Pamphlets

Snell Foundation's Snell Safety Education Center

The Snell Memorial Foundation has full color pamphlets, buttons, posters, videos and other helmet promotion materials. They ask for a small donation and send you an invoice. (We paid $20 for 500) You can contact them through their Web site or by postal mail to

Snell Safety Education Center
3628 Madison Avenue, Suite 11
North Highlands, CA 95660

You can also call them. Their telephone number is (916) 331-5073. Or you can send them email at info@smf.org.

We send a sample of a Snell pamphlet in our Toolkit.

First Wheels, First Helmets

This page was last revised on: August 26, 2007.

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